Book contents
- Royal Heirs
- Royal Heirs
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements for the German Edition (2019)
- Acknowledgements for the English Translation (2022)
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Pledge of a Blessed Future’?
- 2 ‘And This Comedy That I Have to Perform before the World’
- 3 ‘The Affair of His People’
- 4 ‘Making the Princess Known and Securing Friends for After Times’
- 5 ‘From My Earliest Youth the Army Has Been My Absolute Love’
- Conclusion
- Appendix: List of Rulers and Heirs
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - ‘Making the Princess Known and Securing Friends for After Times’
Royal Heirs in Politics, Press and the Public Sphere
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2023
- Royal Heirs
- Royal Heirs
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements for the German Edition (2019)
- Acknowledgements for the English Translation (2022)
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Pledge of a Blessed Future’?
- 2 ‘And This Comedy That I Have to Perform before the World’
- 3 ‘The Affair of His People’
- 4 ‘Making the Princess Known and Securing Friends for After Times’
- 5 ‘From My Earliest Youth the Army Has Been My Absolute Love’
- Conclusion
- Appendix: List of Rulers and Heirs
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter investigates the political effects and means of royal heirs in constitutional systems. It asks how they contributed politically to the process of monarchical persistence in the Long Nineteenth Century and concentrates in particular on instances where they were opposed to the course championed by their predecessors and on the process of generating ‘soft power’ for their dynasties by committing themselves to visibility, mobility and ‘civic publicness’.
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- Royal HeirsSuccession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe, pp. 176 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023